Dyslexia

Dyslexia is a disorder where a person mixes up letters and numbers in their mind and cannot read well. Dyscalculia is also a disease related to writing. Dyscalculia is dealing with math. A person who has dyscalculia is usually not good with numbers and…

spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia” (Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, 2006). Qualifying for SLD, along with any of the other twelve categories of special education, allows the student to receive academic support in the least inhibitive…

Difficulties can be hard to overcome for anyone, but for people with dyslexia, it is almost impossible. People with dyslexia have to overcome many obstacles such as learning to read, spelling words, and even sounding out words in their heads. In the book David and Goliath, Underdogs, Misfits, and The Art of Battling Giants, author Malcolm Gladwell gives us a glimpse into the life of a dyslexic entrepreneur named Gary Cohn. Ever since Cohn was a little boy he had trouble pronouncing words,…

around the page, numbers were always grounded. In elementary school, I would rather count how many words were on each page than actually read them. My entire life I have been treated differently in the classroom because I was labeled: labeled with Dyslexia, labeled with Auditory Processing Disorder, labeled with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Because of these learning disabilities, I had a different set of instructions. One of many was going to therapy. Although the hours of reading…

Ten percent of the population is affected by some sort of learning disability. Given that the average class size is twenty six students per classroom, anywhere between two to three students could be effected with a learning disability. Dyslexia hits home with me and the hardships that came with it are all too familiar. Mental anguish is not the only thing that comes from disabilities, but also exterior environmental factors like the people around you. These few persons are left behind because…

which helps assist users with reading, writing, studying, conducting research, and staying organized. Read&Write, is a literacy software program that is designed to improve reading and writing confidence for people who may have learning disabilities, dyslexia, visual impairments, as well as people who are English Language Learners, and may speak English as their Second Language.…

Tereza Tong Informative Outline Topic: Dyslexia General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: i want to inform the audience on how people encounter dyslexia Thesis: dyslexia can be treated if you can take the time to learn the different causes of it Introduction I. [ Attention Getter ] A way to help someone with dyslexia is to know the symptoms they are showing A. Dyslexia symptoms can usually easy to spot on some people 1. Their reading level are usually low and also slow 2. They…

When I was in the third grade my old teacher notice that I have a trouble with reading and writing because I could not understand because it was very difficult to me. I’m mean I did have my hearing aids since I was born with hearing loss but not born deaf. However, that was not the problem. Therefore, I went to tell my parents that I am having a difficult at school. Therefore, they decided to talk to a doctor specialist. The doctor says that my brain is very slow and that my brain goes back…

Jeanne Chall’s Contribution to Reading and Teachers There are many reasons that a child may struggle with reading, whether it be decoding, reading comprehension, fluency, or a combination of these. There are many reasons that a child might struggle with reading, and therefore a variety of techniques that may be suggested by theorists for teachers to help those students; among those theorists is a contemporary theorist, Jeanne Chall. As a contemporary theorist, Chall has contributed many…

Most of these literacy narratives are going to be about how most of these students hated reading and writing, but explained a big creative story of how they learned to love it and now live and breathe writing. That's not me. Ever since I was little i've never been very good at writing or reading. When I was younger my Grandparents and Mom always made up fiction stories rather than reading them. Which persuaded me to talk more and read less. In Elementary I always knew I was a “weak” reader, but…